Early in the morning of the second day, Lin Daiyu simply cleaned up, lightly applied powder, covered the two dark circles under her eyes, and went to greet Shi Taijun first and talked about it.

After returning from Shi Taijun, she asked Zijuan to send the gifts she brought back from Yangzhou to Baoyu, Baochai, Tanchun, Xiangyun and others.

It didn't take long for Yingchun, Tanchun, Baochai, Xiangyun and other sisters to gather in Lin Daiyu's room.

One is to thank Daiyu for coming back from Yangzhou and bringing them gifts, and the other is that their sisters have been separated for so long, so they made an appointment to come over to talk together.

Early in the morning, Jia Baoyu was called by Mrs. Wang, detained in the room, and did not come with Tanchun and others, but attacked people to thank Daiyu.

"Oh, Sister Lin is different, as soon as she came back, she hooked the soul of the second brother, I heard that the second brother was stopped at the door yesterday, and the second brother made a big fuss!" Shi Xiangyun laughed when he saw Daiyu.

She was a little unbalanced in her heart, when Lin Daiyu returned to Yangzhou, the old lady took her over, and the meaning of her words was to give her to Baoyu.

She also likes Baoyu in her heart, but she didn't expect that as soon as Daiyu came back yesterday, she diverted all Baoyu's attention away, and made a big fuss here, which made her feel a little panicked.

Lin Daiyu was angry when she heard this, she knew that if Baoyu made such a fuss yesterday, she would definitely not be able to spread her good words in the house.

After calming down, Lin Daiyu retorted: "It's not that I want to stop him, it's just that I just came back yesterday, and the house is too chaotic to entertain guests!" ”

"How can I say that Daiyu is also an outsider, I can't compare to Xiangyun's sister and second brother, I am like my own family in the house, and I don't have to follow so many rules, if I don't follow some rules, I don't know how to be arranged!"

Shi Xiangyun immediately stopped doing it when he heard this, and sneered at each other: "Sister Lin is everyone's daughter, but she is different from me, a wild girl, and she keeps the rules so much that she doesn't even care about her relatives, if you can stop the second brother out of the door today, maybe Ming'er should stop us!" ”

Lin Daiyu was not to be outdone, and was about to refute it, Xue Baochai hurriedly grabbed Lin Daiyu and persuaded: "They are all sisters who are playing, just like their own family, how can there be so many rules, according to me, Sister Lin must have been tired yesterday, so the maids around her misunderstood, so she lost her manners." ”

"My sister doesn't know where Sister Bao said this, although Mama Li stopped the second brother, but in the final analysis, it was also to protect me, and I didn't let the maids blame me, I really didn't want to see Baoyu yesterday!" Lin Daiyu said angrily.

Tanchun saw this situation, and immediately came out to play a round, after all, this is the Jia family, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai and Shi Xiangyun, after all, they are all guests of Jiafu.

As the host, she naturally couldn't watch the guests fall out in their house, so she hurriedly shifted the topic to the gift given by Daiyu: "Sister Lin, thank you for remembering us, and you specially brought us a gift from Yangzhou!" ”

"Yes, I thought about looking in the house a few days ago to see if there was any rosin ink, but unfortunately I couldn't find it." Xichun also echoed that compared with Xue Baochai and Shi Xiangyun, she was still closer to Lin Daiyu.

Then the little sisters talked again, but Shi Xiangyun only cared about talking to Xue Baochai, and Xichun asked Lin Daiyu to tell her about the scenery of Jiangnan.

Everyone looked at the atmosphere quite awkwardly, and without chatting a few words, they left together.

After Lin Daiyu sent everyone away, she sulked alone in the room, secretly wiping her tears.

She didn't have any dissatisfaction with Xue Baochai, and the two didn't have much of a holiday, and it wasn't that she looked down on Xue Baochai's identity as the daughter of a businessman.

It's just that she simply doesn't look down on Xue Baochai's way of life, and feels that Xue Baochai's guest at Jia's house is too noisy, and she feels that Xue Baochai is not sincere enough to treat people, so she doesn't have a deep friendship.

As for Shi Xiangyun, it really broke her heart, when she was in Jiafu before, Shi Xiangyun often went to Jiafu as a guest, and lived with her many times, she had some sympathy for Shi Xiangyun, her father was still there, but Shi Xiangyun's parents died since she was a child, and she was a real parasitic fence.

She felt that Shi Xiangyun's life was inevitably a little unsatisfactory, so even if Shi Xiangyun usually said something unpleasant to her, she could understand it.

never thought that when she entered Jiafu for the second time, Shi Xiangyun would take the lead in attacking her, and she saw that Shi Xiangyun's disguise in the past clearly saw that she was straightforward, but in fact she was also a shrewd person.

After Lin Ruhai saw off Daiyu at the dock that day, he arranged for the Lin Mansion to transport the salutes, clean up the house in Beijing, and handed over the receipt to the Ministry of Officials, waiting for Emperor Yuanyong's summons.

Three days later, Emperor Yuanyong heard that Lin Ruhai had arrived in the capital, so he met Lin Ruhai in the Wenhua Palace.

"Chen Linhai greets the saint and respectfully invites the saint!" Lin Ruhai knelt down respectfully and said, when he left Beijing, the four princes were among the princes at that time, and they were just a prince who did his best to do things, and he was not very conspicuous, but he didn't expect to sit in this position now.

"Aiqing is flat!" Emperor Yuan Yong's cold face showed a hint of a smile, this time because of Lin Ruhai, he not only set foot in Jiangnan, but also gained a lot in other places.

Then he saw that Lin Ruhai had some shapes, and felt a little pity for Lin Ruhai in his heart, so he asked, "Is Aiqing's body okay?" ”

"Thank you for asking, the minister is fine!" Lin Ruhai replied respectfully.

"Aiqing has rectified the two Huai Salt Politics in the past ten years, and has worked hard and made great achievements, and has been raising in Beijing for some time, and I will have my own arrangements after a while!" Emperor Yuan Yong reassured.

"It's all the duty of the minister, and the minister doesn't dare to take credit!" Lin Ruhai hurriedly replied.

Later, Emperor Yuan Yong asked some about Yanzheng and Jiangnan, and Lin Ruhai did not hide it at all, and answered them one by one.

Emperor Yuanyong was very satisfied with Lin Ruhai's attitude, rewarded Lin Ruhai with some things, and granted Lin Ruhai a month's leave, so that Lin Ruhai retired.

After two more days, after Lin Ruhai straightened things out, he went to Jiafu to meet him.

The reception of the Jia family is also rarely low-key, although the middle door is opened, but there is no fanfare to greet it, only Jia Zheng takes Jia Lian in front of the door to greet him.

The attitude of the Jia family towards Lin Ruhai was set by Shi Taijun, and now the Nan'an County Mansion and the Jiangnan Zhen family still hate Lin Ruhai, and Shi Taijun is afraid of ruining his friendship with them, so he plans to maintain the relationship with Lin Ruhai only on the face.

However, Jia Zheng has always been good friends with Lin Ruhai, although he did not dare to disobey Shi Taijun's wishes, but he still came out to greet Lin Ruhai in person to show his closeness.

Lin Ruhai was led by Jia Zheng and Jia Lian all the way to Shi Taijun, Shi Taijun's place was quite grand, Jia Baoyu, Jia Huan, Jia Cong, Jia Lan and other grandchildren in front of the hall were all there, and behind the curtain were Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Xing, Li Kun, Wang Xifeng and other daughters-in-law, and granddaughters-in-law were also there.

After Lin Ruhai met Shi Taijun, he and Shi Taijun recalled the old things, Shi Taijun talked about his deceased daughter Jia Min faintly wept, and everyone persuaded him to stop.

Then Shi Taijun instructed Jia Yu to prepare a banquet, and waved away Jia Lian and others, Jia Baoyu wanted to beg Shi Taijun to stay, but when he saw Jia Zheng's eyes, he wilted, and had to retreat with everyone.

Jia Baoyu has been quite depressed in the past few days, he only saw Daiyu on the day Lin Daiyu came back, and he has never had the opportunity to see Lin Daiyu in the past few days.

was detained in the study by Mrs. Wang every day, saying that Jia Zheng wanted to check his homework, and he could only work hard in the study every day.

After Jia Zheng invited Lin Ruhai to Rongxi Hall, he pointed to Jia Lian, Baoyu and the others and said: "Ruhai, this is a junior of my Jia Mansion, and my mother has already introduced it, why don't you come and teach them?" ”

Lin Ruhai groaned slightly, and then agreed to push the boat, he also wanted to see the academic situation of the juniors in Jiafu, especially Baoyu, who Shi Taijun had always praised, and planned to inspect Baoyu first, and then discuss the marriage of Daiyu and Baoyu with Jia Zheng.

Jia Zheng was extremely happy to see Lin Ruhai agree, and said to Jia Lian and the others: "You behave well today, Aunt Lin is a Tanhualang appointed by the emperor, and he is very knowledgeable, you can get a few words of advice from Ruhai, it is enough for you to be of infinite use, if anyone behaves well today, my jade pendant will be rewarded to him as a prize." ”

Jia Zheng glanced at Jia Baoyu as he spoke, and Jia Baoyu's heart trembled.

Jia Baoyu secretly complained in his heart, he hated fame and fortune the most, and he always despised people from the imperial examination, not to mention that Lin Ruhai was still born in Tanhua.

Lin Ruhai replied modestly a few words, and then began to teach everyone their homework one by one, Jia Lian needless to say, he didn't read any books, so he skipped it directly.

Jia Baoyu is now thirteen years old, and most scholars are studying the Five Classics at this age, and Jia Baoyu is also at this stage.

After Lin Ruhai asked Jia Baoyu about his learning progress, he took out an article from each of the Five Classics and asked Jia Baoyu to recite it.

Jia Baoyu has never liked these, but under the persecution of Jia Zheng, he endured the pain and wrote down a lot, and he reluctantly memorized several articles of Lin Ruhai's exam, but there were many mistakes and omissions in the middle.

Jia Zheng was quite angry with Jia Baoyu's performance, firstly, he was angry with Baoyu and made him lose face in front of Lin Ruhai, and secondly, he wanted Baoyu to behave well in front of Lin Ruhai, and he also took this opportunity to propose marriage to Lin Ruhai for Baoyu and set up his marriage with Daiyu.

Lin Ruhai comforted Jia Zheng a few words, he didn't care much about it, although he received an orthodox education, but he didn't pay much attention to memorization, in his opinion, it was more important to know its meaning than to memorize.

So Lin Ruhai took out the Five Classics questions of this year's Yangzhou Government Examination and asked Jia Baoyu to demonstrate, wanting to see Jia Baoyu's scientific examination skills.

"The three virtues are proclaimed every day, and there is a home in the night. The day is strict and respects the six virtues, and there is a bright state. Xi is perfunctory, nine virtues and salty things, and Junyi is in the official. Hundreds of divisions, hundreds of work, only time, caress in the five chen, and the performance is condensed. ”

"This is the Five Classics question for this year's Yangzhou Government Exam, and I won't let you break the question, so you can talk about your understanding of this passage!"